D S Matjila
Biographic Data
| ID | 205449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D S Matjila |
| GIVEN NAMES | D S |
| FAMILY NAME | Matjila |
| SIGNATURE | MATJILA D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8841-0343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cultural Education in Setswana Poetry - With Special Reference to L.D. Raditladi
This article explores Setswana poetry illustrating cultural relevance and restitution that it embodies and might teach. Setswana language functions primarily in the realm of orality and language preserves extensive use of proverbs, history and folk stories. Cultural images pervade Batswana life and imagination, touching the sensations, emotions and imagination, and therefore run as a thread that connects language, proverb, oral and written poetry…
Water as a metaphorical marker in Setswana and Afrikaans poetry
The finding of this article is that water in poetry serves specifically as a marker of metaphorical information in the sense that it accentuates, continues and establishes relationships between elements of metaphorical constructions. To Raditladi and the Batswana in general, rain is compared to cattle, which provide and sustain life for the people. To Marais and the Afrikaner tradition in general, the wedding day is the beginning of a new life; t…
The inaugural Plaatje festival, Mahikeng
The first Sol Plaatje festival, Mahikeng, November 5 and 6, 2010, planned by the Sol Plaatje Educational Trust of Kimberley and hosted by the North West Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and Department of Education, drew learners from a local secondary school, young and aspiring performance poets, interested citizens, language practitioners, Plaatje scholars, and importantly, Sol Plaatje and Modiri Molema family members. Together attendees, …
Lover of His People
Seetsele Modiri Molema’s Sol T. Plaatje: Morata Wabo is the first biography of Solomon Plaatje written in his mother-tongue, Setswana, and the only book-length biography written by someone who actually knew him. The manuscript had long been housed in the Wits Historical Papers and was accessible only to scholars. D.S. Matjila and Karen Haire have mined the archive to produce the first English translation of Molema’s biography, Lover of His People…
Poetry and Patronage
This article illustrates different dimensions of social change regarding the Batswana and Western cultural norms. L.D. Raditladi was chosen, his poetry blending indigenous African- and Western-influenced themes and forms, and portraying common and shared ethos, beliefs and practices of the Batswana. His poetry also addresses social issues that are of particular significance to Africans who for so long have negotiated and navigated a world of cont…
Music in poetry
The Cattle Motif in Sol T. Plaatje’s Publications in English
Afrocentricity is the paradigm that underpins this study, which adapts the analytical construct “motif” from Welsh-Asante’s Nzrui aesthetic model. “Motif” highlights “cattle,” an image drawn from Batswana culture. Traditionally, the life of the Batswana is centered on cattle. Right up to the present, cattle feed the creative imagination in proverbs. This study traces the cattle motif in Sol. T. Plaatje’s three most important publications in Engli…
Analogy and intertextuality in Setswana oral/written poetic diction
This article explores images in terms of intertextuality between language, culture, proverb and poetry, which is a natural phenomenon. This may be because the Setswana language primarily functions in the realm of orality and because the language preserves extensive use of proverbs, even in everyday usage. Language carries culture (Malefo 2007; Ngugi 1986, 16) and as such there is continuity between language, proverb, oral poetry and music in Sets…
Sound and repetition as metaphor markers in Raditladi's work, Aferika
This article explores an aspect of the role of sound repetition in Setswana poetry, with reference to the poem Aferika (Africa) by Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–75). The article aims to apply a model for the study of sound repetition which has been devised for and applied to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1884–89) to Setswana poems. This aim is based on the assumption that printed poems in Setswana form part of the oral tradition. In the c…
Representations of cattle wealth and comfort in Setswana life and oral literature
This article explores representations of cattle wealth and comfort in selected poetry by Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–75). His anthology Sefalana sa Menate (Granary of Niceties) contains 35 poems, and echoes of and allusions to cattle appear in 21 of the poems. The first section of the article demonstrates the relationship between cattle and the Batswana sensibilities, historically and culturally. It shows how a strong identification with cattl…
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Sound and repetition as metaphor markers in Raditladi's work, Aferika
This article explores an aspect of the role of sound repetition in Setswana poetry, with reference to the poem Aferika (Africa) by Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–75). The article aims to apply a model for the study of sound repetition which has been devised for and applied to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1884–89) to Setswana poems. This aim is based on the assumption that printed poems in Setswana form part of the oral tradition. In the c…
Representations of cattle wealth and comfort in Setswana life and oral literature
This article explores representations of cattle wealth and comfort in selected poetry by Leetile Disang Raditladi (1910–75). His anthology Sefalana sa Menate (Granary of Niceties) contains 35 poems, and echoes of and allusions to cattle appear in 21 of the poems. The first section of the article demonstrates the relationship between cattle and the Batswana sensibilities, historically and culturally. It shows how a strong identification with cattl…
Analogy and intertextuality in Setswana oral/written poetic diction
This article explores images in terms of intertextuality between language, culture, proverb and poetry, which is a natural phenomenon. This may be because the Setswana language primarily functions in the realm of orality and because the language preserves extensive use of proverbs, even in everyday usage. Language carries culture (Malefo 2007; Ngugi 1986, 16) and as such there is continuity between language, proverb, oral poetry and music in Sets…
Music in poetry
The Cattle Motif in Sol T. Plaatje’s Publications in English
Afrocentricity is the paradigm that underpins this study, which adapts the analytical construct “motif” from Welsh-Asante’s Nzrui aesthetic model. “Motif” highlights “cattle,” an image drawn from Batswana culture. Traditionally, the life of the Batswana is centered on cattle. Right up to the present, cattle feed the creative imagination in proverbs. This study traces the cattle motif in Sol. T. Plaatje’s three most important publications in Engli…
Lover of His People
Seetsele Modiri Molema’s Sol T. Plaatje: Morata Wabo is the first biography of Solomon Plaatje written in his mother-tongue, Setswana, and the only book-length biography written by someone who actually knew him. The manuscript had long been housed in the Wits Historical Papers and was accessible only to scholars. D.S. Matjila and Karen Haire have mined the archive to produce the first English translation of Molema’s biography, Lover of His People…
Poetry and Patronage
This article illustrates different dimensions of social change regarding the Batswana and Western cultural norms. L.D. Raditladi was chosen, his poetry blending indigenous African- and Western-influenced themes and forms, and portraying common and shared ethos, beliefs and practices of the Batswana. His poetry also addresses social issues that are of particular significance to Africans who for so long have negotiated and navigated a world of cont…
The inaugural Plaatje festival, Mahikeng
The first Sol Plaatje festival, Mahikeng, November 5 and 6, 2010, planned by the Sol Plaatje Educational Trust of Kimberley and hosted by the North West Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and Department of Education, drew learners from a local secondary school, young and aspiring performance poets, interested citizens, language practitioners, Plaatje scholars, and importantly, Sol Plaatje and Modiri Molema family members. Together attendees, …
Water as a metaphorical marker in Setswana and Afrikaans poetry
The finding of this article is that water in poetry serves specifically as a marker of metaphorical information in the sense that it accentuates, continues and establishes relationships between elements of metaphorical constructions. To Raditladi and the Batswana in general, rain is compared to cattle, which provide and sustain life for the people. To Marais and the Afrikaner tradition in general, the wedding day is the beginning of a new life; t…
Cultural Education in Setswana Poetry - With Special Reference to L.D. Raditladi
This article explores Setswana poetry illustrating cultural relevance and restitution that it embodies and might teach. Setswana language functions primarily in the realm of orality and language preserves extensive use of proverbs, history and folk stories. Cultural images pervade Batswana life and imagination, touching the sensations, emotions and imagination, and therefore run as a thread that connects language, proverb, oral and written poetry…
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